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Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year

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Post by abrookewood »

dragonwriter wrote: post #8
existencebox wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I blame that I've been writing "SQL" all day and have unconsciously associated three letter non English words and "Is acronym". (Although I guess "git" is a word, although not typically part of my colloquial vocabulary... Maybe if I was a curmudgeon ~50 years ago as opposed to being a curmudgeon now) Regardless, your pedantry is excused :)

> I blame that I've been writing "SQL" all day and have unconsciously associated three letter non English words and "Is acronym". Hyperpedantically, "SQL" is an initialism, but not an acronym.

FYI: The difference between an acronym and initialism is that the abbreviation formed with initialisms is not pronounced as a word, rather you say the individual letters, such as FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), and DVD (Digital Video Disk*). Edit: Not a criticism, I just I didn't know.

Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year

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Post by hugozap »

methodover wrote: post #74

Something I find really interesting is how VIM takes up a huge chunk of the TILs. One of my personal quirks is I feel like those terminal-based editors consume an undue amount of time and energy to learn and maintain. This TIL seems to give a bit of extra evidence for that suspicion. Simpler options have been available for years now (e.g., Sublime). In those rare moments when you do need to edit files on a remote ser…

I'm learning Emacs and you are right, you need time and energy. They are powerful tools so that's expected. I'm enjoying the journey, but it's not for everybody.

Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year

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Post by bbcbasic »

greggyb wrote: post #40
dragonwriter wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I blame that I've been writing "SQL" all day and have unconsciously associated three letter non English words and "Is acronym". Hyperpedantically, "SQL" is an initialism, but not an acronym.

Perhaps even more pedantically, SQL is actually an abbreviation of an acronym. It was originally conceived as SEQUEL for Structured English QUEry Language[0], only being abbreviated to SQL for legal purposes (SEQUEL was already trademarked). For this, and sheer convenience, I take the stance that it should always be pronounced as "sequel" rather than pronouncing each letter. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#Hist…

Thanks. That's my TIL for today.

Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year

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Post by cmurf »

vacri wrote: post #50
greggyb wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps even more pedantically, SQL is actually an abbreviation of an acronym. It was originally conceived as SEQUEL for Structured English QUEry Language[0], only being abbreviated to SQL for legal purposes (SEQUEL was already trademarked). For this, and sheer convenience, I take the stance that it should always be pronounced as "sequel" rather than pronouncing each letter. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#Hist…

I'm forced to disagree with you here. I take the stance that it should always be pronounced as "squirrel", because seriously, who doesn't like squirrels? :)

Tree rats. :-P

Re: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year

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Post by morninj »

methodover wrote: post #74

Something I find really interesting is how VIM takes up a huge chunk of the TILs. One of my personal quirks is I feel like those terminal-based editors consume an undue amount of time and energy to learn and maintain. This TIL seems to give a bit of extra evidence for that suspicion. Simpler options have been available for years now (e.g., Sublime). In those rare moments when you do need to edit files on a remote ser…

I agree that the Vim learning curve is steeper, but many of these TILs veer towards higher-level Vim wizardry--the kind of things that most Vim users will never both learning (and will never need to). Many of them are also way beyond the capacity of Sublime or Nano.
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